One of the great features of Photoshop is its ability to basically do a lot of …image manipulation at a very high level and then output it for usage in Animate. …And one of the ways you do that is to apply filters and things like that and …then use the Save for Web dialog box in Photoshop CS6. …So let's take a look at that. And to get yourself started, open the …cover jpg image located in your exercise folder. …And when it opens you'll see a little path in the woods in the winter. …Some footprints going off so it's going somewhere.…

And what we're going to we're just going to fuzz out this picture. …We're going to apply a bit of a Gaussian blur to it. …We want this to sort of be the cover photo for the content rotator, but we …don't want it to be overpowering, so we're just going to blue it back. …So the first step is to right click on the background layer here, convert it to …a smart object. And then just go to the Filter menu > …Blur > Gaussian Blur. And we'll apply a blur of about seven to …

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3/27/2013

In this course, Tom Green explores the emerging workflow between the Adobe Creative Cloud applications and Edge Animate through a series of hands-on projects. Discover how to create phone and tablet applications using both PhoneGap Build and Dreamweaver with Edge Animate. Then learn how to build an interactive banner ad using assets created in Photoshop, Fireworks, and Illustrator. The course wraps up with a lesson where you use your Edge Animate skills to create projects for Adobe Muse desktop, tablet, and smartphone sites.